The factory of the future is here—and MIT’s research and applications are leading the way in enabling this transformation. In our interactive 10-week course, you’ll draw on MIT’s more than 100 years of university-industry collaboration to learn how sensors, software, and systems can create a smart enterprise at any scale. From modeling to manufacturing systems to advanced data analytics, you’ll acquire the smart technology strategies you need to get—and stay—ahead.
Motors are becoming better and cheaper—opening profitable new applications across industries. In this course for engineers and product designers, you will learn to assess and design electric motors, generators, and drive systems, with emphasis on electric drives, including traction drives and drive motors. You will also explore how modern embedded controllers enable command through digital computation, breathing life into electric machines and motion control applications.
Ready to revolutionize transportation systems and discover how disruptive innovations are reshaping the mobility sector? In this immersive five-day course, you will learn to analyze and optimize transportation systems using the latest research from MIT and beyond, delving into demand and network modelling, artificial intelligence, simulation, optimization and control. These methods are explored alongside selected future solutions, with a focus on user-centric new smart mobility services , automated and AI-driven vehicles and alternative energy vectors for decarbonizing transportation. Through real-world case studies, professionals from transport service providers, urban and mobility planning, automotive, and transportation sectors can gain actionable insights to address current and future transportation challenges.
The three-day course explores the fundamentals and latest innovations in the study of friction, wear, lubrication, and design of tribological systems. Participants will acquire the skills needed to improve the reliability and durability of tribological systems. Learners will dive deep into fundamentals, trends, strategies, and modern methodologies needed to design the next generation tribological systems.
This course may be taken individually or as part of the Professional Certificate Program in Design & Manufacturing.
Join the cutting-edge of intelligent material design and discover how to integrate advanced technologies to drive the development of next-generation smart materials. In this condensed five-day course, you will participate in hands-on clinics and labs designed to help you optimize your smart material design and manufacturing through the use of large-scale computational modeling, artificial intelligence, material informatics, and machine learning.
Become a stronger leader of innovation and design-thinking in your workplace. Join us for a highly interactive and engaging course that will teach you powerful new approaches for creating innovative solutions, crafting vision that gets buy-in, and developing solutions that people love. You'll learn our proven 10-Step Design Process and gain the strategies and hands-on experience to make your mark as a leader of innovation. Don't miss this opportunity to take your leadership capabilities to the next level.
Learn the fundamentals of lighting, imaging technologies, and motion analysis in this dynamic course, designed specifically for scientists, engineers, and imaging specialists who need to gather data on rapidly moving subjects and events. Guided by leading experts, you’ll overcome common challenges, including trade-offs between depth-of-field, field-of-view, resolution, and lighting requirements by selecting the appropriate lens(es) to capture clear, crisp, images.
Explore the latest strategies for stabilizing biotherapeutics, with a focus on solving mechanisms of instability. Designed for scientists and engineers working in biopharmaceutical discovery, development, and manufacturing, this dynamic four-day course explores various strategies for overcoming challenges related to the stability, solubility, and viscosity of biotherapeutics. There is a focus on a fundamental mechanistic understanding of protein stability, providing the basis for formulating and stabilizing biopharmaceuticals. The course will also present advances in emerging areas, such as cell and gene therapy as well as machine learning.
Delve into the latest in biological and biochemical technology, with an emphasis on biological systems with industrial practices. The longest-running course in the MIT Professional Education catalog, this popular program reviews fundamentals and provides an up-to-date account of current industry knowledge. Alongside accomplished peers, you’ll acquire the tools you need to improve existing biological manufacturing systems or design new ones for downstream processes.
Explore the innovative biotechnology strategies that are improving processes in biological industries around the world. Over the course of five days, you’ll acquire the tools and frameworks you need to enhance your organization’s downstream process—and drive increased value. Through highly interactive lectures and activities, you’ll examine traditional unit operations, as well as new concepts and emerging technologies, which offer benefits to biochemical product recovery.